We've got decent rugby and high unemployment, thanks for the latter Labour.
If you're going to make a pointless (not to mention off topic) partisan point, at least try to make it an accurate one; unemployment in Wales these days is around about the U.K average.
But what an average
''Official figures from the Department of Work and Pensions reveal that the 957,000 people claiming jobseekers' allowance are joined by 2.7m people on incapacity benefit and 777,000 lone parents deemed not to be in "the field of work".
An extra 368,000 people were judged not to be in paid work but instead caring for relatives and hence eligible for a special benefit. A further 314,000 people are in a special disability category, separate to Incapacity Benefit. The total amounts to a massive 5.29m people in receipt of out-of-work benefits, equivalent to 16% of Britain's working-age population. .
There is also a sharp regional variation,
with the figure peaking at 31% in some parts of the Welsh valleys. In Glasgow and Liverpool, over 25% of the workforce is now jobless. This rises to 60% in the more deprived suburbs of large cities. Britain's long period of economic growth has completely bypassed 2.39m people who have been dependent on benefit for five years or more, the vast majority in categories which are not included in the official unemployment claimant count or survey, the analysis also reveals. ''
Edit. Off topic. I'll be good now. Obvious dig at government, not the disadvantegment of the Welsh Valleys or indeed my own local Lanarkshire coal belt.
